The Incredible 2 comes out this Friday,
and we've got too many things to say about the original.
>> You sly dog.
You've got me monologuing.
I can't believe (Laugh), this.
>> So, in the interst of time,
here are several things you didn't know about the Incredibles, probably.
(Sound) >> Showtime.
>> When the Incredibles came out in 2004, it was seen as yet
another successful movie in the Pixar tradition, but at the time,
the Incredibles was actually the least Pixar movie that Pixar had ever Pixared.
>> Ha, never heard that one before.
>> Besides being their first movie to star human protagonists, and the first to earn
a PG rating for violence, the major difference was Brad Bird who wrote and
directed The Incredibles unassisted,
making him Pixar's first outside director and author.
Bird also assembled a creative team that had only previously worked in 2D animation
and none of the original Pixar founders were involved, as in previous productions,
but The Incredibles still features many of the classic Pixar hallmarks,
which leads us to our first segue.
(Noise) Besides breaking a few conventions set by the previous five features,
The Incredibles still delivers the traditional Pixar Easter eggs.
There are the hidden shoutouts to the past like these Luxo and
Andy's store signs that make reference to Luxo Junior, and Andy from Toy Story, and
the Easter eggs that tease the next movie from Pixar, in this case Cars,
like this fire truck and this shot of an unanthropomorphic Doc Hudson.
But The Incredibles is actually missing one of the biggest recurring
easter eggs of all, the Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story,
making it the only instance where it is not found somewhere in a Pixar movie.
But we can cut old Brad Bird some slack since we have him to thank for
the oldest Pixar Easter egg there is.
(Noise) The mother of all Pixar Easter eggs has to
be A113, which appears in every one of their feature films to date.
It is a reference to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts
where alumni John Lassiter and Brad Bird attended, but
the first instance of it as an easter egg was in the Brad Bird project Family dog,
which was an animated episode of Amazing Stories back in 1987.
It has since been included in every Bradburg project,
including the episodes of The Simpsons he directed,
Iron Giant, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and of course, The Incredibles.
But it's also popped up in dozens of other movies, TV shows, and
video games, including The Brave Little Toaster, Bobby's World, Dr.
Who, Fallout 4, The Avengers, and Spiderman: Homecoming.
>> Whoa.
Has that been here this whole time?
That's awesome.
>> And though there hasn't been a confirmed connection between A113 and
THX 1138, which appears in dozens of other popular culture properties,
I'm not ruling out some kind of Illuminati shenanigans,
which is, boom, a bonus conspiracy theory thing.
(Sound) Now besides just referencing other Pixar
projects, The Incredibles makes a few real world predictions as well.
There's this dashboard GPS system inside the Incredimobile,
this travel pod which is giving me real Hyperloop vibes, and
this iPad looking tablet with iPhone facial recognition technology,
which makes total sense, since Steve Jobs was the CEO of Pixar.
Also, with The Incredibles 2 coming out a whopping 14 years after the original,
Syndrome would have to agree that's just- >> Too late!
15 years too late.
>> Well it's not exactly on the money, but he's still pretty close.
(Sound) With Pixar cranking out hits, and
bringing in the bucks, they pretty much had their pick of celebrity voice talent.
So it might surprise you to know that, with the exception of the main cast,
almost every other character is voiced by a Pixar staff member, or their family.
Starting with the obvious, there's Brad Bird, who started to do the voice of
Edna Mode just to have a scratch vocal track, but ended up being the voice in
the final film when they couldn't find anyone else to do that weird accent.
>> You push too hard, darling, but I accept.
>> Also Bird's oldest son lends his voice to heartthrob Tony Rydinger,
while Bird's other son does the boy on the tricycle.
Jack-Jack's babysitter is done by animator Bret Parker.
Producer, John Walker did the voice of the reverend, and Bud Luckey,
the director of the short, Boundin', which preceded the theatrical
release of The Incredibles, does the voice of government agent, Rick Dicker, and
Lou Romano, who voiced teacher Bernie Kropp and
later Linguini in Ratatouille, almost predicts his own future with this line.
>> This little rat is guilty!
>> Don't look at me like that.
You're the one who was getting fancy with the spices.
>> And in case you were wondering, even though he sounds just like Ray Romano,
they aren't related, and trust me I checked.
(Sound) It's no surprise that The Incredibles pays homage to the comic
book superheroes of Brad Bird's youth.
The family themselves are closely modeled after Marvel's The Fantastic 4, right down
to the powers and even costuming, but the similarities became a bit of a problem for
the 2005 production of the Fantastic 4 movie
when the third act of The Incredibles was almost identical to theirs, except better.
The studio reportedly threw another 20 million into the special effects to
try and make Mr.
Fantastic stretches convincingly as Elastigirl and I think it was worth it.
Don't you?
Over the course of its four year production, The Incredibles faced many
obstacles in bringing the very detailed and very specific vision of Brad Bird to
life, but the biggest obstacle to production was probably Brad Bird himself.
>> I am the least whimsical guy!
>> He became notorious for not making compromises to the story or
design despite the limitations of the animation technology at the time.
It's not something you think about, but
Violet's long straight hair was a nightmare to create in 3D animation.
But instead of changing the look of the hair, like giving her pigtails,
as they did with Boo in Monsters, Inc., Bird insisted they spend
the months it would take to reprogram the hair simulator until it looked just right.
He also refused to change camera angles that would allow for easier animation, and
wouldn't reuse locations, which necessitated creating four times more sets
than any other Pixar movie before it, and since the character design for
the megalomaniacal Syndrome was actually modelled after Brad Bird,
I think it's pretty safe to assume the crew had their opinions about his methods.
Well, that's going to do it for me.
Hit the thumbs up if you're seeing Incredibles 2 this weekend, and
let us know in the comments where the original stacks up in your list of
all-time favorite superhero movies.
>> Man, I'm still geeking out about it!
>> Thanks for watching and
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